CIVILIZATION IS A VICIOUS CONFIDENCE GAME PLAYEDN ON A FIELD OF PROVINCIAL IGNORANCE. E. L. DOCTOROW
BREATHING SPIRITUAL LIFE INTO EACH DAY. SWAMI RAMANANDA
AND SUDDENLY YOU KNOW: IT’S TIME TO START SOMETHING NEW & TRUST THE MAGIC OF BEGINNINGS. MEISTER ECKHART
AN IRISH TOAST
THERE ARE GOOD SHIPS AND THERE ARE WOOD SHIPS,
THE SHIPS THAT SAIL THE SEA.
BUT THE BEST SHIPS ARE FRIENDSHIPS
AND MAY THEY ALWAYS BE
“Any one who has watches Gregory Hines superb virtuosity over the years would notice how the dancer’s weight-shifting style is now ornamented with a jaunty rhythmic filigree. Visual elegance, as always, yields to aural power. The complexity of sound grows in intensity and range.” ANNA KISSELGOFF–NYT
“In America it is traditional to destroy the black body — it is heritage.”
For whites, getting woke meant becoming attuned to the omnipresence & intransigence of racial oppression; at a policy level, it meant any approach that didn’t put race front & center was at best inadequate & at worst pernicious.
Ta-NEHISI COATES
GREAT THUNBERG 2003———ENVIRONMENTALIST
THE REAL DANGER is not inaction. The real danger is when politicians and CEOs are making it look like action is happening when in fact nothing is being done.
WE ARE LIVING IN THE BEGINNING OF A MASS EXTINCTION AND OUR CLIMATE IS BREAKING DOWN.
I BELIEVE THAT ONE PERSON CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
WHY SOULD I BE STUDYING FOR A FUTURE THAT SOON MAY NOT EXIST?
I WANT YOU TO PANIC. I WANT YOU TO FEEL THE FEAR I FEEL EVERY DAY. AND THEN I WANT YOU TO ACT.
GIVING UP CANNOT BE AN OPTION.
TO DO YOUR BEST is no longer enough. We know have to do the seemingly impossible.
BEING YOUNG is a great advantage since we see the world from a new perspective and we are not afraid to make radical changes.
I THOUGHT I COULDN’T MAKE A DIFFERENCE BECAUSE I WAS TOO SMALL.
OF COURSE, individual change doesn’t make much difference in a holistic picture . . . but we need both systemic change and individual change.
WE SHOULD NOT UNDERESTIMATE OURSELVES, BECAUSE IF LOTS OF INDIVIDUALS GO TOGETHER THEN WE CAN ACCOMPLISH ALMOST ANYTHING.
TO DO YOUR BEST is no longer good enough. We now have to do the seemingly impossible.
MANY PEOPLE seem to have this double moral. They say one thing and then do another thing. They say that the climate crisis is very important and yet they do nothing about it.
I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN THAT GIRL IN THE BACK WHO DOESN’T SAY ANYTHING.
I DON’T use any animal products both because of ethical and environmental and climate reasons.
I DON’T EASILY FALL FOR LIES — I CAN SEE THROUGH THINGS.
BY STOPPING FLING, you don’t only reduce your own carbon footprint but also that sends a signal to other people around you that the climate crisis is a real thing & that helps push a political movement.
I HAVE ASPERGER’S, I’M ON THE AUTISM SPECTRUM, so I don’t really care about social codes, it makes you think differently.
I WANT THE POLITICIANS to prioritize the climate question, focus on the climate & treat it like a crisis.